Everyday heroics

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Step 1 to Post-Traumatic Growth: Shattering Our Assumptions

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Step 1 to Post-Traumatic Growth: Shattering Our Assumptions

In our last two posts, we’ve begun to explore the ways physicians and other healers recover after traumatic experiences with adverse patient outcomes. Today, we get down to the nitty gritty with a look at the first step in the process of post-traumatic growth.

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Can Setbacks Really Set Us Up for Comebacks?

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Can Setbacks Really Set Us Up for Comebacks?

If you’d told me seven years ago that I’d be grateful for my experience with an unexpected adverse outcome and malpractice litigation, I’d have called you insensitive or worse. How is that we find our way through adversity to make something beautiful out of some of the most difficult moments of our lives?